Running-gear for vehicles.



J. E. BENNETT.

RUNNING GEAR FOR VEHICLES.

APPLICATION FILED MAYQ. 1912.

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JAMES EDWARD-BENNETT, or MoMENcE, ILLINOIS. l

RUNNING-GEAR ron vEHIcLEs.

Specicatoniof Letters Patent. Patented NOV. 10, 1914.

Application filed May 9, 1912. Serial No. 696,261.

ToaZZ whom 'it may concern Be it known that I, JAMES E. BENNETT, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at Momence, in the county of Kankakee `and State of'lllinois, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Running-Gear for Vehicles, of which' the following is a specification.

The support generally used for'wagons at the present time comprises an axle orv axles with commonv skeins on each end, on which a thimble in a wooden hub is secured against loss, producing a bearingv having a long neat lit, in which the grease dries often, and produces a stiff hard engagement with the other, moving, part.

My invention relates to an improvement in running gear for vehicles and has for its object to provide an easy running engagement between the wheel and the axle, `and to construct the engaging parts so that each can be conveniently assembled and dissembled both with respect to itself and the otherpart. v

In the drawings-Figure l is a plan view of a wagon running gearvembodying my invention, parts being in section and parts being broken away to better the illustration. Fig.v 2 is a side view of a bearing with the near parts removed, on the line 2-2 of Fig 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical section of a bearing on theline 3 3 of Fig. 1.

1 isan axle bar adapted to support suitable running gear and having tapered skeins 2 secured to each end by fastenings 3, the skein being provided with longitudinal oil grooves 4. Smaller peripherally-grooved rings 5 and larger peripherally-grooved rings 6 having an internal taper to correspond to the taper of the skeins, encircle the cone part of the skeins in spaced relationv to each other and are secured to the skeins by splines or other suitable fastenings which will provide a rigid connection. The grooves of the rings 5 and 6y provide inner bearing surfaces or raceways for antifriction balls 7 and 8, the balls being conned by outer two-part rings 9l and 10,l having outer bearing surfaces or raceways and seated in cavities in outer and inner flanged l hub sections 11 and 12, respectively. Each ball-bearing comprising a ring 5,1balls 7, and two-part ring 9 is seated in al smaller cavity 13 in the outer hub section 11, and each ball-bearing comprising a ring 6, balls 8 and two-part ring 1Q is seated in ya larger cavity 14 in the inner' hub section 12. kA larger cavity or an enlarged portion 15 adjacent the cavity 13 receives a ball-bearing retaining disk or washer 16, rand `the space between the ball-bearing,k comprising ring 5, balls 7 and two-part ring 9, and the mouth of the4 hub-sectiony y12 lled by 'a'k ballbearing retaining disk or washer v17 having f a reduced part 18 adapted vto serve as a butt for radially disposed spokes 19, ofa wheel, the spokes being rigidly secured between the two flanged hub sections 11 and 12 and between intervening wedge-shaped blocks 19a, the hub sections 11 and 12 and the intervening blocks 19a being alined and secured rigidly together by fastenings 20. The inner ends of the lspokes may be sharpened and the wedges omitted if desired. At their outer ends the spokes are received into suitable fellies 21 bound by suitable tires 21a.

The ends of the tapered axle skeins carry a reduced screw threaded portion or an inserted screw pin 22, adapted to receive a retaining .cap or nut 23. The-skeins have an enlarged port-ion 24 where they are joined to the axle, and the hubs of the wheels are permitted to rotate between the cap 23 and the enlarged portion 24 which secure the wheels from side motion.

The outer hub section carries a reduced screw threaded extension'25 iny each instance,

the extension being adapted to receive there- .28 being the part to contact with the enlarged portion 24 of the axle in case of undue side play. The inner extension 27 and the flange 28 are perforated as at 29 to afford passage for lubricant to the bearing the outer end of the perforation 29 having'a closure or an oil cap secured thereto, `or therein.

' It is obvious that by unscrewing the dust cap 26 .and the cap 23, the wheel may be removed intact from the axle skein, the inner rings of the bearings slidingoff the splines if the'splines are in one piece with the axle skein or the innerrings of thebearingsand their splines sliding @eine skein Where the i rings `and splines are mande integral, the skein in the latter case being provided With suitable grooves to receive the integral splines on the inside of the rings 5, the splines preventing the turning of the rings on the axle skein thus transferring all Inotion to the balls in the grooves By unbolting the fastenings 20 the Wheel may be taken apart for the renewalof spokes or the eX- arnination of the bearings, and that all theA parts are easy of access and may be eX- arnined Without disturbing the ball-bearings.

The changes may be Inade in the general form and arrangement of the parts described Without departing from my invention, and as fairly in View that falls Within the spirit and scope of my invention.

Having thus described my invention the following is What I claim as new therein and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

A running gear comprising an inner hub section having an interior iange, a fixed inner ring, a loose outer ring surrounding the inner ring and a Washer having a reduced part, all located in the cavity of the inner hub section, and outer hub section having a stepped cavity and an interior flange, a fixed inner ring, aloose outer ring surrounding 'the inner ring and a Washer all located in Y Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

